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Berg, John
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Berg, J. (2025). Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 60(8), 1482-1497
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond
2025 (English)In: International Review for the Sociology of Sport, ISSN 1012-6902, E-ISSN 1461-7218, Vol. 60, no 8, p. 1482-1497Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article is based on the creation of sports heritage as having strong roots in the Anthropocene. It particularly discusses listed building declarations of the built heritage of sport, from a Swedish perspective, as well as the feelings of nostalgia associated with such activities. Two contemporary examples of preserved sports heritage sites, Hind & aring;s Ski Jumping Hill in Hind & aring;s and the stand at Virdavallen in Alvesta, are analysed. The analysis shows that the preservation or the foreverising of sporting sites is based on a fear of losing them, known as constructalgia, and that a listed building declaration is a way of curing such feelings. The importance of preserving the sites is partly about honouring past generations and partly about offering the heritage of sport to future generations. Using contemporary heritage theory and a post-anthropocentric approach, the article problematises prevailing, human-centred conservation paradigms and proposes other imaginative ideas of how to think beyond the ingrained patterns that characterise the Anthropocene.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SAGE Publications, 2025
Keywords
sports heritage, emotional heritage, heritage, Anthropocene, Ski jumping, materialities
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History
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-364056 (URN)10.1177/10126902251340896 (DOI)001488540200001 ()2-s2.0-105005586135 (Scopus ID)
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Available from: 2025-06-02 Created: 2025-06-02 Last updated: 2025-12-30Bibliographically approved
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